Alfred W. Ellet

Alfred Washington Ellet (11 October 1820-9 January 1895) was a US Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Alfred Washington Ellet was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1820, the brother of Charles Ellet Jr.. He moved to Philadelphia in 1824 and then to Bunker Hill, Illinois when he was 16, becoming a farmer and dry goods store owner. When the American Civil War broke out, he became colonel of the 59th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, fighting at the Battle of Pea Ridge before serving in his brother's ram fleet. Following his brother's death at the First Battle of Memphis in 1862, he took command of the fleet, and he commanded it until it was disbanded in 1864, upon which he resigned. He later became a businessman in El Dorado, Kansas, where he died in 1895.